More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. A politica…
  2. There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coa…
  3. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you canno…
  4. For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.
  5. Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but…
  6. Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature. Every thing is made of one hidden stuff.
  7. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue…
  8. Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by…

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